Kamal Derwish arrives in Lackawanna, N.Y. A working-class town just south of Buffalo, Lackawanna is home to 3,000 Muslim Americans whose families come from the small country of Yemen, on the Arabian peninsula.

Also known as the country or State of Qatar, or, locally, as Dawlat Qa?ar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula.

' or '), officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( ' ), is the largest Arab state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab world (after Algeria).